Maintaining and Supporting IT, New Operating Models

Focusing existing IT resources in areas that add growth to the bottom line has become a top challenge for IT organizations. According to IDC, companies are spending over 90% of their budgets in maintaining and managing the existing environment. Only about 5-10 percent are actually used to drive things like new customer offerings , additional transaction models and business growth. Shortages on skill and resources create additional challenges.

This Web seminar wants to show ways that allow you to shift resources to higher ended growth domains while pooling day-today-maintenance and administration in a new flexible way.

Attend this webinar and learn about:
•Why maintenance and support contracts should become proactive resource centres rather than passive “insurances” for incidents
•The long term ROIs of your IT as a function of how productive the in-house staff can add to the bottom line
•The classic model of maintenance and support contracts has to adapt to these challenges and needs to allow more diverse and flexible resources

Find out how to build and use your cloud to support your businessâs objectives. Learn about new HDS cloud solutions and services that help you create clouds for infrastructure, content and information. Simplify and accelerate your transition to the cloud. Improve your competitive edge and build a foundation for future innovation.

By attending this webcast, youâll learn how to
â¢Gain agility and react faster to the growing and changing needs of your businesses.
â¢Reduce operational and capital costs through a flexible infrastructure that supports cloud delivery models for IT.
â¢Simplify and accelerate the adoption of private, hybrid and public cloud with an integrated portfolio of Hitachi cloud technologies, solutions and services.

Healthcare providers today are experiencing ever increasing data growth and demands for improved services and clinical workflow. Clinicians are demanding faster and simplified access to patient related data, regardless of their location or the data source. IT departments are being asked to manage increasing complexity whilst being asked to provide greater performance and improved service levels in the most cost effective way.

There is a definite need therefore for improved automation, simplified information management to address the challenge of doing more with less.

Healthcare Organisations are therefore looking for innovative ways to maximise the efficiency of their existing information infrastructures, whilst at the same time deploying new technology where cost & value can be justified.

Attend this webinar and hear about:

- How to maximise the utilisation of your existing Storage Infrastructure to defer procurement
- Reduce the complexity and cost of maintenance & management
- Improve responsiveness to demands for new clinical services and applications whilst maintaining service levels
- Increased IT agility to limit financial impact of changes and improved planning for future upgrades.

The promise of Cloud and the reality of the deliverable today provide organisations with a new set of choices when establishing an information governance policy for the future. Driving value and intelligence from the data which must be retained, and that which organisations choose to retain, is key to future profitability, economic efficiency, service provision and competitive edge. Big data, analytics, discovery and content repurposing are all clear objectives now and for the future.

For commercial enterprises and government institutions alike as the tidal wave of data increases in size, Cloud Services and Cloud Enabled architectures will be crucial in ensuring organisations are not lost in the flood.”

Attend this webinar and learn how to
- Establish a cost effective foundation upon which to build a forward-thinking solution for data management
- Minimise the backup burden created by massive growth in unstructured data
- Centralise policy management and enforcement across your business
- Create an economically viable and sustainable infrastructure from which to transition your business to meet future requirements

Our EIG service provides effective management of information ensures that the right information is kept for the right period of time in a manner that guarantees its availability, confidentiality and integrity. Hitachi Data Systems provides you with a cost-effective end-to-end compliance solution, from strategy to implementation.

The Enterprise Information Governance Service from Hitachi Data Systems provides a tried and tested phased approach to identifying, assessing, developing and implementing an information governance framework. Flexible and customizable, the EIG Service from Hitachi Data Systems enables you to optimize your storage solutions and achieve compliance by:

â¢Identifying relevant regulatory regimes
â¢Developing EIG policies, such as the creation of retention schedule rules
â¢Classifying legacy content, identifying duplications, corrupt content and age of content, and identifying completeness of metadata with a view of compliance
â¢Applying EIG policies to assigned content using automated tools
â¢Migrating data from current to new systems

Attend this webinar and learn how to:

â¢Protect and ensure the integrity of your data as a valuable asset
â¢Manage data in different physical locations and a variety of storage solutions
â¢Control growing data-related operational cost
â¢Ensure legal and regulatory compliance across national boundaries
â¢Ensure consistent information retention schedules

Focusing existing IT resources in areas that add growth to the bottom line has become a top challenge for IT organizations. According to IDC, companies are spending over 90% of their budgets in maintaining and managing the existing environment. Only about 5-10 percent are actually used to drive things like new customer offerings , additional transaction models and business growth. Shortages on skill and resources create additional challenges.

This Web seminar wants to show ways that allow you to shift resources to higher ended growth domains while pooling day-today-maintenance and administration in a new flexible way.

Attend this webinar and learn about:
•Why maintenance and support contracts should become proactive resource centres rather than passive “insurances” for incidents
•The long term ROIs of your IT as a function of how productive the in-house staff can add to the bottom line
•The classic model of maintenance and support contracts has to adapt to these challenges and needs to allow more diverse and flexible resources

Focusing existing IT resources in areas that add growth to the bottom line has become a top challenge for IT organizations. According to IDC, companies are spending over 90% of their budgets in maintaining and managing the existing environment. Only about 5-10 percent are actually used to drive things like new customer offerings , additional transaction models and business growth. Shortages on skill and resources create additional challenges.

This Web seminar wants to show ways that allow you to shift resources to higher ended growth domains while pooling day-today-maintenance and administration in a new flexible way.

Attend this webinar and learn about:
•Why maintenance and support contracts should become proactive resource centres rather than passive “insurances” for incidents
•The long term ROIs of your IT as a function of how productive the in-house staff can add to the bottom line
•The classic model of maintenance and support contracts has to adapt to these challenges and needs to allow more diverse and flexible resources

Remote Operational Services from Hitachi Data Systems are provided by fully certified team members who help you improve overall efficiencies, meet service level objectives and better storage infrastructure investment.

This will allow you to focus your scarce resources on the important bits of your business.

Listen to Trevor Williams - Global Product Manager, Managed Services - and learn how other companies are using these services to their advantage.

Offloading storage intensive processes from the VMware vSphere 4.1 environment to Hitachi storage enables significant improvements in VMware performance. It can dynamically scale from hundreds to thousands of virtual machines on a single amalgamated tiered storage infrastructure to keep your environment streaming. This is supported on the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family and the new Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform.

Join our webinar and learn how to:

•Control costs due to virtual server sprawl by consolidating on the Hitachi Virtualized Storage Platform
•Improve quality of service (QoS) to meet increasingly demanding and growing [virtualized] application requirements
•Assess the performance advantages of virtual storage platforms for large scale deployments (more than 10k) of virtual desktops (Citrix and VMware View) with the Hitachi Virtualized Storage Platform

Discover the key challenges that currently prohibit clinical information sharing; and how these act as a barrier to information integration and access.

Interoperability is a critical piece of any hospital’s Electronic Health Record strategy – one which relies heavily on consolidation of patient information necessary for physicians to make well informed patient care decisions.

Effective Electronic Health Record implementation requires consolidation of different departmental systems in order to adequately access the longitudinal record. There are strong drivers for interoperability of patient data; storage virtualization, consolidation and metadata-based open repositories are key enablers to help achieve this.

The deduplication solution includes disk mirroring to protect against local storage failure as well as replication to protect against disasters. The solution also includes a failover capability, which lets you recover data and respond to business requirements even if multiple nodes in a cluster fail. This same clustering approach allows you to scale to meet growing capacity and performance requirements while enhancing the overall deduplication efficiency. Clustering enables separate FalconStor VTL devices to be managed and used logically as a single data repository, supporting even the largest data requirements.

Attend this live webcast and:
•Learn how Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage and FalconStor Virtual Tape Library with Deduplication can improve the backup and recovery of your data
•Improve recovery reliability, speed, availability and capacity
•Reduce the amount of date you need to store using deduplication

Under conditions of shrinking budgets, organizational change and increased competition, enterprises are being challenged to make information both available and secure while their IT organizations are asked to do more with less. Join Bob Plumridge, CTO at Hitachi Data Systems EMEA & Chairman for SNIA Europe discussing his thoughts on transforming IT for the future and how Hitachi are solving the industry’s most pressing challenges with their approach of one platform for all data, coupled with their leadership in virtualization technology. He will discuss the latest major steps toward transforming the way companies implement IT and turn their raw data into valuable information that offers scalability and adaptability for the future.

As CTO for Hitachi Data Systems Bob is responsible for aligning technology vision with business strategy and evangelising this vision to the press, analysts and existing and potential customers. With over 30 years experience in storage, Bob’s expertise is both wide and deep having worked in many roles in the industry from Field Engineering to Technical Product Support through to his present CTO role.Bob has worked for a variety of companies including ICL, Memorex Telex and EMC prior to joining HDS in 1988. Also Bob is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) for EMEA.